Acronis TI not deleting older backups
Acronis TI 2019 just keeps adding backups to my external drive until I get a message that there is not enough space for a new backup. I then go and delete them manually to leave only 7. Maybe I don't understand what a "version chain" is? I want to always have a full backup available and 6 incrementals. I should not have to be manually deleting the older ones and I may inadvertantly be destroying a "version chain" or something that would be needed for a full restore/recovery action? Any help here with how this should be configured?
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Mary, welcome to these public User Forums.
Your settings will cause 7 backup version chains (7 x Full backups plus 7x5 (35) Incremental backups) to be created, plus a further Full backup before any older chains get deleted by automatic cleanup.
A version chain is a Full backup file plus 5 Incremental files where these all share the same _b1_ (chain number _b2 or b3 etc).
Change your cleanup rule to 'Store no more than 1 (or 2) recent version chains' instead of using 7 here.
When needing to clean up older backup files / chains, then please use the 'Clean up versions' tool for the backup task from the ATI GUI - this is found by clicking on the caret 'v' to the right of the task name to reveal a drop-down menu of options.
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